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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-01-26

The separating tendencies of the white
and colored Methodists at the South are
attracting the attention of the leaders OF
the denomination. At recent preach
ers' association the Rev. o. H. Warren,
OF the Northern Christian Adc~0te,
opened the discussion, and said the SUBJ
jcct was brought before the country by
the recent action of the Chattanooga
University in refusing admission to
young colored men. DIR. Warren re-
viewed the work of the Methodist
Church in the South since the close OF
the war. At first the work was carried
on without regard to color, and soon the
fact wa, developed that separation OF the
races was deemed necessary, and now
there are very few, if any, mixed con-
gregations or conferences in the South,
and thus caste or separation exists. DIR.
Warren contended that the division was
natural and necessary.
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A MARINE DISASTER,
Twenty-Five Sailors and Five Life
Savers Drowned.

Twenty-Five Sailors and Five Life
Savers Drowned.
A most disastrous shipwreck occurred at
o'clock the other morning near tho Little
Island life-saving station on the Virginia
coast, fourteen miles south of Cape Henry.
Twenty-seven lives were lost, among
them five life saving men, who,
in the discharge Of their duty,
were drowned. The morning was bit
.terly cold and binding snow storm pre-
vailed, with the wind blowing gale from
the northeast. During lull in the Storm
the life-saving patrol from Little Island
life-saving station sighted a large ship
stranded on the bar about S0J yards
from the shore. When he saw the YES
sci he was on his way to meet the pa
troll from Dam Neck Station and exchange
checks showing that both patrolmen had
been to the enl of their beat. The Dam
Neck atrol was only few yards distant
when the vessel was sighted, and both fired
rockets to notify the crew Of the stranded
ship that she had been seen. They hurried
back to their respective stations and gave the
alarm.
In little while both crews, with lifeboats
and apparatus, were abreast of the wreck,
and the boom of a mortar announced that
line had been shot out to the ill-fatei vessel.
The shot was unsucces full, and q Sc oond
was firei with like result, After firing
six unsuccessful shots, the life-saving
men determined to brave the fur-
Gus seq and the death which
seemd certain to await their venture. The
word OF command being given by Captain
Belanza of Life Saving Station No 4, known
as Little Island, six of the most expert
boatmaa manned each boat. At his
command tho men gave way with
boats were breasting the furious waves
They reached the ship in safety, and five Of
the Ships crew were taken in q lifeboat and
ten in q ships boat, which was launched for
the purpose. The boats were headed for
shore and not q word was spoken, for each
man realized the awful peril which
surrounded them. With steady pull the
two boats were milking good headway for
both borts, capsizing them instantly and
pitching their twenty-five occupants into the
boiling sea.
Then began desperate struggle for life,
and with many of the men it was pro-
longel one. The Mortified life savers on
the beach were powlerless to assist their
drowning comrades or the unfortunate
carried southwark by the seas, and
some Of them were washed ashore. AS they
came within reach they were picked up and
endeavors were made to revive them, and in
two instances with success, although one of
the two is bally injured
The vessel is the German. ship Elizabeth,
CAPTAIN Halberstadt, from Hamburg to
Baltimore, and not one ef her crew of twenty
two men survived her wreck.
Of the life-saving crew the following were
lost: Abel Belanza, Captain of No. 4, known
nc Little Islnnd. J. W. Land same station;
Geo. w. Stone, same; j. A. Be!anza, o. Dam
Neck station, and brother of Abel; Joseph
Spratley, Of Dam Neck
John Etheridge and Frank Tetford, OF No.
station, were washed ashore and resusci.
tated
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JOHN ROACH.
Death of tho Most Noted ship
Builder in America.

Death of tho Most Noted Ship
Builder in America.
John Roach, the most celebrated ship,
builder in this country, died few days
since at his home in New York. He lad
been suffering for some time from cancer Of
the mouth, which finally terminated fatally.
Mr.. Roach was born not far from Cork,
Ireland, December 25, 1Sl3 He came to this
country alone when SIXTEEN years old. He
worked four years in New Jersey brick
ward. Then he was apprentlced for three
wears to the AlIaire Iron Works, OF New
York. to. learn the trade Of an IRON
founder. After while he went into bust
ness for himself, aud in course Of time be-
came the leading ship builder IN the country.
In 1871 b. built his famous shipyards at CEes-
ter, Penn. MIR. Roach was an earnest Re
of protection. When the Democrats came
into power in 1885 he held c,ntracts to
build four steel cruisers. All his available
capital was invested in the work. His
friends, too, were on his bonds for
large amounts. Mr. William C. Whitney,
the Secretary of the Navy, adopted a new
line OF policy regarding government contract
work, and he declined to maze any pay.
ment upon the Dolphin, the first of
tue vessels which Mr.. Roach had I'M
der contract, or upon any of the
others, uutil the Dolphin had been approved
by the Naval Advisory Board. The first trials
Of the Dolphin were not satisfactory. Mr..
Roach's means were oil invested in the ves-
sells, and the Secretarys refusal to make ad-
vances upon the work forced the veteran
shipbuilder to make an assignment. lhls
was in August, 1885.
During his operation Of the Chester ship
wards Mr.. Roach built eighty ircn ships
there with total tonnage of 2l0,O tons
and valued at $35,OoO,OOO He employed
from 1,SO0 to 1000 men. The fortune
which he left is estimated at 81 ,0O0, ,0oa. The
assignees appointed after his failure state
that they have paid sixty per cent; OF n his 81, la
OOO, and that in February the balance wilf
probably be paid.
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A novel ice-boat has been invented
which ought to be of service in Polar
expeditions. The object of its construc-
tion, however, is far more practical and
useful. 1t is for the Michigan Central
Railroad, and is to have capacity of
thirty cars, to run across the Straits of
Mackinaw. 1t will be of peculiar con-
struction, designed especially to over
come the hitherto quite insurmountable
obstacles that have been encountered in
the Straits of Mackinaw in midwintcr.
Ey an ingenious expedient the new boat
breaks its own way through an ice foe
by immense screws at either end. It's
estimated that under the most adverse
circumstances the boat will be able to
make the passage in one day, where a
trip of nine days has been not uncommon
in bad times heretofore.
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LATER NEWS.

ROBERT NJ. TAYLOR, prominent resident
of Reynoldsville, Penn, shot and killed his
wife and then committed suicide. Sickness,
financial troubles, and the death Of child
by drowning it is thought unsettled Tay-
lors reason.
For the first time in the history of the
city two ladies, appointed by the outgoing
Mayor Grace, took their seats on the 18th in
the New York Board of Education.
TEN firemen were thrown thirty feet by
Jhe fall of roof at fire in Baltimore.
They were all injured in various degrees Of
severity.
1T is :hought that the bill to amend the
Anti-Polygamy act, passed by the House and
sent to conference committee Of both
Houses, will, if it becomes law, be the death
blow to Morlnonism.
LORD IDDESLEIGH, q member Of the
British Cabinet holding the Office of First
Lord of the Admiralty, dropped dead while
making a call at the official residence Of
Prime Minister salisbury in London. He
was born in 1918, and was better known to
the world as Sir Stafford Northcote.
MISSIONARIES report the massacre Of 100
native converts to Christianity in Uganda,
Africa. Most of the victims were burned
alive
JOHN NJ. WILSON was hanged at Norris
town, Penn, for tho murder of Anthony w.
Dealy.
THE late Senator John A. LoGan's sue
ccssor in the United States Senate is ex-Con-
gre .sman Charles B. Farwell, of Chicago, the
legislative caucus of Illinois Republicans
having chosen him on the second ballot.
ADDITIONAL nominations by the Senate:
John T. Campbell, of California, Consul at
Auckland; Henry H. Pendleton, OF west
Virginia, Consul at Southampton.
THE Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Hugh A. Dinsmore to be Minister Resident
and Consul General at Corea.
THE first evening reception given at the
White House by the President and Mrs.
Cleveland, assisted by the Cabinet ladies'
was attended by throng of people, includ-
ing Supreme Court Justices, foreign Diplo'
mats, Army and Navy Officers, Senators
and Congressmen, ct. Seven different kinds
of invitations were issued.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE Chicago players will report for duty
at the Hot Springs on April l.
IN tho six games he played while in Cuba
lately Sam Wise, of the Bostons, had bat
ting average OF 333.
THE University Of Pennsylvania will be
coached by Henry Boyle, the gentlemanly
pitcher of the St. Louis Maroons.
THERE are about fifty baseball players
wintering in Cincinnati, a' many more in
Philadelphia and few less in Detroit.
FERGUSON, pitcher of the Philadelphia
Baseball Club. has been engaged to coach
the Princeton College nine during the Win
ter.
THE Metropolitans now have two men-Es-
terbrook and Orr-who have led the Asso-
citation batteries, the former in 1884 and the
latter in 1856.
No less than forty-six of the minor league
players will be found In the ranks of the
League and American Association for the
season of 1887.
CARPENTER, of the Cincinnati team, is
contemplating organizing team to go to
New Orl' ans in February to play with the
Southern League team there
The National League has signed an even
100 players; American Association, 76; Inter-
national, l06; Northwestern, 40; Western,
a; Southern, 80: Eastern, 10: New England,
ga total Of Al for the principal profess
sioral organizations.
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The nature of the potato has been thor
oughly exposed in an exhibition celc-
brating the tercentenary of the iutroduc-
tion of the potato into England. Meth
DDS of storing, preserving and using po-
tato products were shown, and the his
tory was exhibited in an historic and
scientific collection, including maps
showing the European knowledge of the
New World 300 years ago, and the prox-
unity of potato growing districts to the
ports most frequented, and illustrations
of potato disease and works on the sub
ject. The potato was found to be more
than prosaic tuber; it was subject OF
history, botany and travel.
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If any one wishes to prove to what a
great degree his own perceptions depend
upon his surroundings, let him hold the
fingers of one hand in a barrel Of ice wa
ter, and those of the other in bowl of
water as hot as he can bear it, for say
one minute, and then plunge both hands
into third bowl of water at the tenn
perature of an ordinary living room.
This water will be cold to one hand and
hot to the other. 1t is an amusing and
instructive experiment.
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According to the calculations mac

According to the calculations made by
scientific writer, it requires prcdig-
ious amount of vegetable matter to form
layer of coal, the estimate being that
it would really take 1000, 900 years to
form coal bed 100 feet thick. The
United States has an area of between
800, 900, and 400, 900 square miles of coal
fields, 1OO,0OO,O0O tons of coal being
mined from these fields in one year, or
enough to run ring around the earth at
the equator five and one-half feet wide
and five and one-half thick, the quantity
being sufficient to supply the whole
world for period Of 1900 to 1900
wears
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States

A STRIKE Of employees in the coal carrying
trade in New Jersey and Pennsylvania has
thrown $4,000 men out Of employment
WILLIAM E. DIzAN, Of Wheelock, vt
has been held for examination on the charge
of numbering five Of his children soon after
their birth.
Two old misers, Joseph Perry and Rober
Price, were found in dilapidated building
in Philadelphia starved to death.
AN extensive fire at Hartford, Conn.,, gut
ted large business block, causing loss Of
over S175,00O Thomas r. Lawton, re-
porter, was burned to death.
REV. DIR. EDWARD McGLYNN, the promi-
nent Catholic priest summoned to Rome from
New York, because Of his open championship
of Henry George in the recent mayoralty
contest, has refused to obey the summons.
The assessed valuations of real estate N
New York City are Sl.257, ,275, ,903, an in.
crease of S5S, 334,SSS over 1856.
Two horse thieves named Caldwell and
johnson attacked John Walters, turnkey Of
the Waterloo IN. " jail, in an attempt to
escape, but were secured before they could
get away. Walters died of his injuries
DR.. WILLIAM PERRY, oldest graduate Of
Harvard College and sole survivor of the
passengers on Fulton's first steamboat ride
down the Hudson seventy-nine years a?o,
died few days since at Exeter, N. H., in his
ninety-ninth year.
The Clinton Powder Company's factory
near Platts5urg. N. Y, was demolished by
an explosion of 1000 pounds of nitro-glycer-
he. The sho;k was felt thirty miles away.
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France now has total debt of about
$1,000. 600, 900, or twice as large as that
of the United States at the close of the
war, and six times as large as our pres
ent interest bearing debt. The French
debt is nearly $500 per head of her pop
ulation, while that of the United States
is less than SEQ per head. There is an
interest charge of s14O,OOO,Ooo year,
besides annuitics and other burdens not
clearly stated, amounting to nearly as
much more. The annual revenue wrunS
from the people is $3.50, ,OOo,o 600, and yet
this is insufficient to meet the necessities
of the government.
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The following table shows the number
of murders per 10, 900, 600 inhabitants in
each of the principal countries:

DR.. Brown-Sequard is quoted as saying
that one has only to harden the neck and
feet and destroy their sensitiveness to
prevent taking cold. This is done by
daily blowing a stream of cold air, by
means of an elastic bag, upon the neck,
and by immersing the feet in cold water.
The air is at first only slightly cool, but
is each day made colder, until tine neck
can stand an arctic blast with impunity.
The feet are immersed in water at first at
a temperature of ninety degrees, and
this is gradually reduced to thirty. eight
DEGREES.
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FARMING INTERESTS.
Value of Last Years Crops OF
Corn, Wheat and Oats.
Doings of the Farmers National
Congress in Washington.

The National Department of Agriculture
estimates of the area, product, and value OF
corn, wheat and oats for permanent record
are completed. The official work OF the year
has been thoroughly reviewed, with the aid
of State cooperation and all available
data of crop production, and the aS-
gregates arc substantially those re-
Gently reported. The corn crop in
round numbers aggregates l.G65,oOo, ,0)O
bushels grown on IS, 100000 acres, and has
farm value of $780, 900. The yield IS
twenty-five bushels per acre, four aud one
half bushels less than last year. There is an
increase of area of over three per cent, and
do 'rease in product of fou! teen per cent,
while the average price has increased twelve
per cent, or from -. cents to 500 cepts per
bnShel.
The aggregate product of wheat is 431,-
G00.0O) bushels from an area of nearly 81
90 1000 acres, having a farm value OF
ssh, o,00J The average value is
GS.7 cents per bushel against III
for the previous. crop and Chs cents
for the great crop of 1884. This is
50 per cent reduction from the average
value between 1879 and 1881 The yield OF
the spring wheat centres is better than was
expected early in the season aud on the
Pacific Coast much worse he general av-
erage for winter aud spring wheat is Le1rly
ia bushels per acre.
5,OJO,0OO less than last year, from IN area OF
over y, ,000, 600 acres producing value OF
$ISlj, ,OOO, 900. The average yield Is 2G bush
els, against 81 q last year. The average value
is % cents per bushel, last year 2S.3 cents
per buShel
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FOREIGN.


TIE census of France for 1885 shows a
total population of IS, $3.50 against37, ,6T2,-
O4S in 1885.
Four of the young mon condemned to
death recently for an outrageous assault
upon a servant girl at Sydney, Australia,
have been hanged.
The village Of Djemel, near Tunis, North
Africa, was severely shaken by an earth
Quake. A number OF houses fell down
and seven persons were killed and many
hurt.
ANUMBER of peasants at Smolensk, Russia,
have rebelled and overpowered aud disnrined
the garrison. Troops from Charkoff euelled
the insurrection.
AvALANCHES in Switzerland have de-
stroyed some houses and killed many cattle.
TEN persons were injured by an explosion
of gas III tenement house in Glasgow, Scot
land.
A GREAT snow storm has been raging
through the midland counties of En- gland,
causing an almost complete interruption OF
traffic.
GERMANY is reported to be storing etor
nous quantities Of provisions in the strongly
fortified town Of Metz in anticipation Of war
with France.
SEVERAL changes in the British Cabinet
are announced
ENGLISH naval pensioners have becn or
dered to hold themselves ready for active
duty-an announcement not calculated to
allay the apprehensions of great Har In
Europe.
The famous royal Alcazar Pa'ace. ut To.
ledo, Spain, has been completely destroyed
by fire. Twenty persons were injured. The
ancient edifce had been restored at cost Of
81, 100000.
PRINCE BISMARCK in debate on the Army
bill before the German Reichstag told the
members they must pass the bill or the
Reichstag would be dissolved.
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In 1899 the population OF Spain scarce.
ly reached 100000, but at the end of
1882 it exceeded 100000 this being
tantamount to an increase of $40 per
1000 inhabitants every year. The agri-
cultural population, which was only b
G15, ZOO eighty-tive years ago, is now o, :
32s, coo, and the area under under culti-
vation has increased faom $4,000, 900 to
1913, $50, 900 acres, while there arc now
$4,000, coo head of cattle as against just
half that number at the beginning of the
century. The industrial population of
Spain has risen from >, ,03j, 900 to 8, ,03s,
600, and the number of manufactures,
etc., from sS3 to 1891. The trade of
the country has increased in proportion,
the p: o3ress during the last twenty-five
years being particularly remarkable, as,
while the imports and exports together
amounted to only c25, S02, 00) in 1850.
they have been gradually increasing and
now reach G5G, 100000. The increase
extends to all branches of trade, for
while Spain now produces 4Gl, ,?jG, 600
gallons of wine. of which about two
thirds arc consumed in the country aud
the remainder is exported. Her railway
system, which but five years ago did not
reach 4, 200 miles, is now not far short Of
G. 900 miles.
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The latest idea in England is to tax
foreign workmcn S25 year. The prop
osition is aimed at the German servants
and artisans, who are found be be for
midable rivals of the native article.
German and other foreign competition
in ocean commerce is also seriously i'm
pairing the prosperity of Liverpool. Its
shipping statistics for 1886 show de-
crease of 100, tons. The coastwise
trade & ,ws an increase, the falling of
being in the foreign trade.
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SHIPWRECKED.
Thrcc Saved OF q Crew of Twenty
four in the Pacific.

Three Saved OF q Crew of Twenty
four in the Pacific.
The crew of the ship Harvey Mills, which
foundered at SEQ while on q voyage from
Seattle. Washington Territory, for San Fran
cisco, numbered twenty-four. The threo
survivors say that when all hope of saving
the ship was abandoned the Captain AMI
three MEN attempted to leave the ship in
small boat, but as soon as thoy left the ships
side the boat was capsizel by q heavy sea,
and they were drowned. Four others took
to a raft, but have not since been heard of.
Mate Crlshman and three of the crow also
left the ship on a raft, but before tEey were
picked up one of the men Went cray and
Jumped overheard. The other twelve Of tho
crew stuck to the ship, and, as the survivors
saw her 60 down, all OH board must have
perishel. The three rescued mon have ar
rived in San Francisco.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

A CLARE (Mich.) man owns q six-legged
calf.
THE Hudson River ice crop will be very
large this season.
STORMS on the Gulf have occasioned seri-
OILS loss to the rice planters.
THE losses by fire in this country during
1856 will figure up about SIG, 100000.
1T is estimated that California has 5000. {.
0OJ bushels of VIII at available for export
TIE Florida orange crop this season is es-
timated at $50, 0O0 boxes of l2S to 250 oranges
each.
DURING 1885 American mills produced
1,35n.000 tons of steel rails, valued at $4O,-
0un,00o.
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Accented and Paid For.

Young man Ito publishcr)-"Did you
accept that little matter Imailcl YOU last
week."
Publishcr-"Ycs.
Young mani didn't know. I re-
ceived no check for it,
Publisher-''You didn't put any price
on it."
Yong mani said to send me what
you thought it was worth"
Publishcr-''Well, that's what I sent.
-Nt0 Tors San.
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South and West.

THE Michigan Republicans, who control
the Stats Legislature, chose Francis B.
Stockbridge, a wealthy business man, as sue
cessor to Omer D. Conger in the United
States Senate
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, has been visited by
an earthquake which caused buildings to
shake and windows to rattle.
THE Gate City Guards, of Atlanta, crack
Southern military organization, ccntem-
plated making tour Of England next sum-
mer; but their application for permission to
march through that country has been re-
fused by the British authorities.
DELAWARE CITY, Del, thriving village,
has lost nearly its entire business section by
fire. Loss, about $lO0,GOl.
A FIRE at Fargo, Dakota, destroyed q por-
tion of the Northern Pacific Railroads shops,
causing an estimated damage of $500, 900.
THE Chicago Trades Assembly and the
machinery of the Labor party in that city
have been captured by the Socialists, who
now fill the prominent Offices
THE officers of the steamer J. w. Martin,
burned on the Mis- is'issippi River December
Il, have been indicted for manslaughter in
causing the loss of many lives.
HENRY MEYERS died a few days since in
Vermillion Parish, La, and it is claimed that
at his death he had reached the advanced age
Of l26 years.
VERGHo, RUHL1NG ,& Co., of Chicago,
until recently the largest toy house in the
West have failed for 100000.
OWING to tho complications arising in In
diana from the election contests and claims
of both political parties, the Inauguration of
Lieutenant Governor Robertson (Rep.) at
indianapolis was accompanied with scenes
of great disorder. The Democratic members
of the Legislature energetically protested
and motion to ad ;ourn was declared car
ried, but when rush was made for the doors
they were found locked. The Lieutenant
Governors inaugural could not be heard in
the din that was raised
SAN FRANCISCO has been visited by an
earthquake which lasted seven seconds but
did no damage.